Let Them Kneel (kaelani and Julian) novel Chapter 178

Chapter 178

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Yet beneath the decay, that same gold current still pulsed through their ruined veins. Weak. Artificial. Like something forcing a corpse to twitch long after the soul had fled.

Life support for a dead forest.

A chill crawled down Kaelani’s spine.

The guard in front of her finally stepped aside.

And that was when she saw him.

Draevyn.

Not as he had been.

Not as he had ever allowed himself to be seen.

The glamour had shattered.

What stood before the court now was something primordial and grotesque – a mockery of the beautiful ruler they had followed for centuries.

His şkin had darkened into a gray–ashen hue stretched too tightly over sharp, predatory bone. Veins of molten gold split through him in jagged fractures, glowing beneath the surface like cracks in cooling stone. His once flawless features had elongated into something gaunt and inhuman–cheekbones blade–sharp, mouth pulled slightly too wide as if it had forgotten how to rest in a natural shape.

His eyes…

They burned.

Not with the cold intelligence she had always seen there

that seemed to devour whatever they fixed upon.

but with a ravenous, consuming hunger. Twin pits of molten light

His dark hair hung in uneven strands, as though life itself had been leeched from it, and beneath the fabric stretched taut across his back shadowed ridges pressed outward like the beginnings of something monstrous forcing its way free.

Power bled from him in visible waves.

Wrong.

Corrupt.

Stolen.

The gold energy did not simply surround him.

It fed him.

Every movement in the courtyard seemed to stall – suspended in the same breathless horror that had already seized the crowd. Through drifting dust and fractured lantern–light, two figures broke into view beneath the archway.

Julian.

And Jace.

its light fixed squarely

In Julian’s hand, held with deadly steadiness, the Veil of Truth burned with an unrelenting brilliance on Draevyn, tearing his glamour apart and forcing the monstrous reality beneath into full, irrefutable view. Julian didn’t take in the ruin.

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Didn’t register the guards.

Didn’t acknowledge the stunned court.

His eyes found only one thing.

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